Plots everywhere demolished and open!

[SturmChurro]

Is it a bot when I see these people looking up and down at the board every few seconds?

[Nabiri]

Is it a bot when I see these people looking up and down at the board every few seconds?

Not necessarily. Some people just stand there clicking for hours while watching youtube/netflix. XD

[Wrestlefire769]

Not necessarily. Some people just stand there clicking for hours while watching youtube/netflix. XD

I'd really like to know if there are any live people out there doing this. There can't be that many.

[gilmorej]

Is it a bot when I see these people looking up and down at the board every few seconds?

I'd really like to know if there are any live people out there doing this. There can't be that many.

I have done Housing Savage twice, in person, for hours. It's really not hard to do it on kind of semi-conscious auto-pilot while you are watching something else....

0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0 ... over and over. You can go pretty fast. Your character will be nodding like they've got some sort of condition.

Players around me probably thought I was a bot.. but I was not.

In truth, there's not really any way you could tell if a person was botting or not.. The behavior would look the same whether they are or aren't. Since it just boils down to repeatedly pressing a series of keys over and over, you could even program your keyboard to do it, if your keyboard is fancy enough.

[Seraphor]

you could even program your keyboard to do it

That's a bot.

[Nabiri]

I'd really like to know if there are any live people out there doing this. There can't be that many.

I was one of them. 9 Hours for the first try. I didn't get the house.
7 hours for the second try. I didn't get the house.
10+ hours for the third try. I got the house.

Of course I would step away for an anxious moment to get food, drink, and take bathroom breaks, before rushing back. In that time my character was unmoving.
But I was pretty stubborn/determined. And I'm not super opposed to repetitive activities. I just watched movies at the same time to keep me awake.

Edit: I will say that my hand was pretty sore (arthritis acting up) at the end of each of these nights though.. XD
But wrecking our health is what it takes to get a house in this game, and having one was that important to my happiness within the game.

[SturmChurro]

I was one of them. 9 Hours for the first try. I didn't get the house.
7 hours for the second try. I didn't get the house.
10+ hours for the third try. I got the house.

Of course I would step away for an anxious moment to get food, drink, and take bathroom breaks, before rushing back. In that time my character was unmoving.
But I was pretty stubborn/determined. And I'm not super opposed to repetitive activities. I just watched movies at the same time to keep me awake.

Edit: I will say that my hand was pretty sore (arthritis acting up) at the end of each of these nights though.. XD
But wrecking our health is what it takes to get a house in this game, and having one was that important to my happiness within the game.

Jesus. Hope you got an actual desirable plot for all that time. I don't even have arthritis (in my mid-20's), but after probably around 12 hours total of clicking, I could really feel it..

[Yencat]

I was finally able to relocate from Lavender Beds to Mist, not exactly a prime location down by the beach but it's decently high up with its own staircase and has a nice clear view of the ocean and the beach without any houses blocking it, thanks for reminding me OP!

[Dagget]

We still have some mediums open and available to be bought on Louisoix

[Colt47]

I think the issue I ran into with housing is that the idea was people would buy up buildings and decorate them to form districts, but in the actual game there's little incentive to walk around the districts themselves, so it turns into a luxury instanced thing that loses meaning pretty fast.

I hate bringing up shroud of the avatar, but the one idea they did have that was pretty solid was having the towns and cities have the housing plots in them. People basically would still go through the towns and pass by homes owned by actual players in the course of playing the game day to day, unlike what FFXIV has where we got a new hub city each patch and are constantly moving farther and farther away from home so to speak. The obvious issue with this is that the size of cities would be enormous and constantly sprawling out further and further much like real life cities.

The central hub of Uldah would be like the heart of Chicago, and houses would flood out from all districts completely covering the country side all the way to the port in Western Thanalan. Then housing demolishment would result in vacant districts that would became derelicts. If they had done zoning and other aspects differently, this could have been pretty interesting having to deal with monster infestations when plots got abandoned, and home owners needed to constantly battle off these creatures from damaging the walls or climbing into the homes via walls.

Imagine right now, with all those homes being abandoned, just how much chaos there would be if the few remaining owners had to start calling people in to try and keep the monsters from destroying half their living spaces. Soon you'd have all the players moving their homes together into clusters, with the smaller homes around the bigger ones like buffer zones...

Edit: Actually, we need this. Like, having to buy new furnishings from monsters ruining houses would probably add more motion to the crafting market. Plus it causes a more natural destruction of a limited number of houses...